What?
This is a python 2 program that receives no input and outputs its source code. In addition, the source code contains only 7 distinct ascii characters.
How?
In an effort to preserve my sanity, I wrote a program to generate this quine. It is written in Ruby so that I would not confuse it with the generated program.
The quine bootstraps itself starting with a severely restricted set of features (no numbers, arithmetic, functions etc) until it acquires the ability to construct any string. Then, it does a backflip and executes the core program using the exec keyword. Along the way, it also manages to avoid the paradox of self reference.
What's next?
The quine can be shorter. I might improve the generator program in the future.
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